Packaging device



May 29, 1923.

G. A. ROBINSON PACKAGING DEVICE Filed Jan. 18, 1922 Patented May 29, 1192?.

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GEORGE A. ROBINSON, OF NORFOLK DOWNS, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO PNEU- MATIC SCALE CORPORATION, LIMITED, OF NORFOLK DOWNS, MASSACHUSETTS, A

CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

PACKAGING DEVICE.

Application filed January 18, 1922. Serial No. 530,207.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEoncnA. ROBINSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norfolk Downs, county of Norfolk, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packaging Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combination package charger and lining smoother, and involves certain improvements over'the de vice shown in my concurrently filed application to which reference is made.

The construction and operation of my invention, together with a selected embodiment which well illustrates the principles involved, is described and shown in the accompanying specification and drawings, and the characteristic features of novelty are particularly pointed out in the appended claims. Throughout the specification and drawings like reference numbers are employed to indicate corresponding parts. In the drawings:

Figs. 1 and 2 are side and plan views, respectlvely, of a device in accordance with my invention. p

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectionthrough the device and showing it partly inserted within a lined carton, also shown in section.

Fig. 4c is a partial plan view thereof showingthe device further entered within the carton, J

Figs. 5 and 6 are transverse sections on the ling 5 -5 and 66, respectively, of Fig. 1, an

Fig. 7 is a section on the line 7-7 of Fig. 3.

n the present invention, the device consists of a trough-like container comprising a flat bottom 1 and spaced substantially vertical side walls 2. The forward edges 3 of the side walls slope downwardly to meet the bottom 1 and said bottom is extended beyond the juncture of the edges 3 therewith as a taperedentering end or nose 4, the lateral edges 5 'of which converge towards each ogher and terminate in a transverse leading e e 6. I verlying the bottom 1 and extending from a proximately the juncture of the inclined orward edges 3 with the horizontal top edges of the side walls 2 towards the rear is a cover 7 The forward end of said cover is inclined rearwardly, as indicated at 8 Fig. 2, providing a notch the sides of which continue the rearward inclination of the inclined forward edges 3, and which notch with the tapered nose 4 and the inclined edges 3 smoothes the lining L flatly against the walls of the carton C as the device is entered endwise through the open end of the carton.

' The rear edge of the cover 7 is bent upwardly as indicated at 9 providing a stop which has the double function of limiting the entering movement of the charger into the cartonby abutment with the carton end (Fig. 4;) and of guiding the sticks of macaroni or other material M into the carton. Beyond the guide 9 the side walls 2 of the device are rearwardly inclined as indicated at 10 and outwardly flared as indicated at 11 whereby to enlarge the capacity of the device.

In use, the charge M here indicated as sticks of macaroni, is placed in the troughlike charger and the nose 4 thereof is inrserted endwise into the carton until the guide 9 contacts the open end of the carton. During its movement into the carton the wedge formed edges 5, 3 and 8 engage and smooth back the lining flatly against the carton wall so that the charge may be deposited within the lining without any possibility of a portion thereof entering between the lining and the carton walls.

The charge may be expelled from the device either by hand or by inserting a plunger 12 therethrough, as indicated in Fig. 4:, the

cover 7' guiding the materiaLinto the carton.

What I therefore claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A smoother for a lined carton comprising a trough-like member having aformed leading end, and a cover for said member having its forward end tapered to cooperate withsaid wedge formed leading end in smoothing the lining against the CJI member having its forward edge tapered rearwardly to cooperate with said wedge formed leadin end in smoothing the lining against the wa ls of the carton as the device is entered endwise into the carton and having an upturned transversely disposed flange at its rear edge effective to limit the entrance of the device into the carton by abutment with the carton and to guide the charge into the carton as it empties thereunder.

4. A combination charger and lining smoother for a lined carton comprising a trough-like member adapted to hold a predetermined charge, a cover for said member having a flange adjacent its rear edge, constituting a stop to limit the entrance of the device into the carton and a guide for the charge as it empties from the device into the carton, said member and cover having tapered leading edges effective to smooth back the lining as the device is entered into the carton.

-5.\In a combination charger and lining smoother for a lined carton, a trough-like member adapted to hold a predetermined charge and comprising a bottom wall and spaced side walls sloping downwardly at their forward edges to meet said bottom wall, a cover overlying said bottom and having its forward edge tapered to provide with the downwardly inclined forward edges nating in an upturned transversely dis-- posed flange constituting a stop to limit the entrance of the device into the carton and a guide for the charge as it empties from the device intocarton, and said cover having its forward edge tapered to rovide with the downwardly inclined orward edges of the side walls a lining expanding and smoothing wedge.

7. In a combination charger and lining In a combination charger and lining smoother for a lined carton, a. trough-like charge and comprising a bottom wall and spaced side walls sloping downwardly at their forward edges to meet said bottom wall, and said bottom beyond the juncture'of said edge therewith extending as a tapered nose, a cover overlying said bottom and having its forwardedge tapered rearwardly to provide with the downwardly inclined forward edges of the side walls and the tapered nose of the bottom a linin expandin and smoothing wedge, the side walls 0 said charger in rear of said cover flaring rearwardly and outwardly/ In testimony whereof I aifix my" signature in presence of two witnesses:

GEORGE A. ROBINSON;

Witnemesz WILLIAM A. JOPLIN,

WILLIAM H. Nnwnar.

member adapted to hold a predetermined" 

